Stanley Tucci

“I live in London, and I spend a lot of time in England and have a lot of British friends.”

“The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.”

“I never go overbudget on my movies.”

“Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.”

“Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.”

“I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.”

“I don't like not being busy.”

“I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day.”

“The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.”

“I write in the mornings. During my down time.”

“I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.”

“But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.”

“People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.”

“I wanted to be an architect, an artist, or an actor.”

“I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.”

“Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.”

“I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.”

“And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.”

“I would rather just do the things I want to do.”

“My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.”